Trifluoroacetic anhydride → 7-Methoxy-1H-isothiochromen-4(3H)-one

HRID 1419085Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1419085 reaction equation
[CH3:1][O:2][C:3]1[CH:4]=[C:5]([CH:12]=[CH:13][CH:14]=1)[CH2:6][S:7][CH2:8][C:9](O)=[O:10].FC(F)(F)C(OC(=O)C(F)(F)F)=O.C([O-])([O-])=O.[Na+].[Na+]>FC(F)(F)C(O)=O>[CH3:1][O:2][C:3]1[CH:4]=[C:5]2[C:12]([C:9](=[O:10])[CH2:8][S:7][CH2:6]2)=[CH:13][CH:14]=1

Participants

5

Procedure

3-methoxybenzylmercaptoacetic acid from Step 2 (10.82 g) was dissolved in trifluoroacetic acid (50 mL). Trifluoroacetic acid anhydride (25 mL) was added and the reaction stirred under a nitrogen atmosphere for 0.25 hours. At this time, TLC showed no starting material. The solution was carefully poured into 10% Na2CO3 solution (500 mL) which was stirring vigorously. The organics were extracted into ether (500 mL) and washed with brine (300 mL), dried over MgSO4 and concentrated in vacuo. The resulting brown solid was purified by silica gel chromatography eluting with 20% ethyl acetate in hexane to yield 7-methoxyisothiochroman-4-one (4.84 g, 49%): 1H NMR (CDCl3) δ=3.48p (t, 2H, J=0.8 Hz), 3.83p (s, 3H), 3.84p (s, 2H), 6.6p (d, 1H, J=2.4 Hz), 6.83p (dd, 1H, J=2.4, 8.9 Hz), 8.0p (d, 1H, J=8.9 Hz).

Workup

  1. stirringwas stirring vigorously
  2. extractionThe organics were extracted into ether (500 mL)
  3. washwashed with brine (300 mL)
  4. dry with materialdried over MgSO4
  5. concentrationconcentrated in vacuo
  6. customThe resulting brown solid was purified by silica gel chromatography
  7. washeluting with 20% ethyl acetate in hexane

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-14d8fcbb0bcf4c0daac262c3f7cd646f
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1999_03
Patent number
US05886016

Reaction notes

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